Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies―and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line Today's ways of working are not working―even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload , Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem. But this unhealthy and unsustainable situation can be changed―and Overload shows how. Drawing on five years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees and managers, Kelly and Moen tell the story of a major experiment that they helped design and implement at a Fortune 500 firm. The compan
隐士是中国历史上一个非常独特的文化现象。在那为数众多的历代隐士群体中，纵然也有不少佛、道教的信徒，但他们却主要不是出于宗教信仰而隐居的。他们的隐居，主要是为了实现自我，按自己喜欢的生活方式过自己的生活。他们的隐居，开始也许是出于一种政治态度和政治选择，逐渐就转化、发展成一种生活方式和人生价值追求，并最终趋向一种审美境界和文化追求。在这个过程中，隐士们以自己的种种价值认定、人生实践和文化创造极大地影响了中国的历史文化传统。《适性任情的审美人生：隐逸文化与休闲》对中国古代隐逸文化做了认真地梳理、耙块，并探讨了中国隐逸文化的理想与价值追求、精神。
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire―and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia―and it’s likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning , distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate aftermath, and its damaging longterm consequences for the Roman world. Drawing on remarkable new archaeological discoveries and sifting through all the literary evidence, he tells what is known about what actually happened―and argues that the disaster was a turning point in Roman history, one that ultimately led to the fall of Nero and the end of the dynasty that began with Julius Caesar. Rome Is Burning
How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court―and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait of inequality and injustice within and beyond the criminal courts. Matthew Clair conducted extensive fieldwork in the Boston court system, attending criminal hearings and interviewing defendants, lawyers, judges, police officers, and probation officers. In this eye-opening book, he uncovers how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions. When disadvantaged defendants try to learn their legal rights and advocate for themselves, lawyers and judges often s
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《芬兰》将向读者讲述芬兰奇迹和荣誉背后那一个个鲜活的故事，引导读者徜徉在如诗如画的美丽国度中。芬兰，一个人口只有530万的北欧小国，却拥有“森林王国”、“欧洲绿色之肺”、“千岛之国”和“圣诞老人故乡”等诸多的美称。2000-2004提。芬兰连续四年被评为世界上腐败程度、廉洁程度最高的国家。在世界经济论坛公布的全球竞争力报告中，芬兰三度蝉联榜首。芬兰还是全球移动电话产品市场的头号，2003年诺基亚公司手机的发货量达1.8亿部，占全球市场份额的35％。是什么造就了芬兰的奇迹？是什么使得“小国寡民”的芬兰拥有如此之多的世界桂冠？
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Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that, far from being preordained, computer code is the result of very human decisions, ones we all live with when we use social media, take photos, drive our cars, and engage in a host of other activities. Everything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who, at the time, made choices and assumptions that would have long-lasting, profound implications for society. Torie Bosch brings together many of today’s leading technology experts to provide new perspectives on the code that shapes our lives. Contributors discuss a host of topics, such as how university databases were programmed long ago to accept only two g
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his views on God, the Bible, and miracles, as well as for his uncompromising defense of free thought. Yet the radicalism of Spinoza’s views has long obscured that his primary reason for turning to philosophy was to answer one of humanity’s most urgent questions: How can we lead a good life and enjoy happiness in a world without a providential God? In Think Least of Death , Pulitzer Prize–finalist Steven Nadler connects Spinoza’s ideas with his life and times to offer a compelling account of how the philosopher can provide a guide to living one’s best life. In the Ethics , Spinoza
A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. B
作者考察了中国的小脚部落――云南通海六一村的历史，采访了几十位小脚妇女，发掘了她们的缠足史，叙述了她们的生命历程并探索了世代缠足者的心理及其欣赏缠足者的变态心理。
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty―providing their children with opportunity―and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
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